State Quotes

• Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Neighbours
  • Expedition
  • Probabilities

• For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

  

  Armin Hofmann
  • Mind
  • State
  • Poster

• [In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Born
  • State
  • Adelaide

• In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Idea
  • Rule
  • Citizens

• I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Face
  • Expression
  • Confusion

• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • State

• And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

  

  Hippocrates
  • State
  • Manage
  • Cure

• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

  

  Anthony Gregory
  • Planning
  • State
  • Brute Force

• It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.

  

  Keiko Fukuda
  • World
  • Book
  • Inspiring

• What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • State
  • Heritage
  • Freedon

• A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • State
  • Peoples
  • Peculiarities

• The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Constitution

• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  

  Michael F. Easley
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Concern

• I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Songs
  • State

• England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Canada
  • Expense
  • Irritation

• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Science
  • Value

• Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • State
  • Dictate

• If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Create
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Nation
  • State

• Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Army
  • Arms

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  

  George Meade
  • War
  • Results
  • Desperate

• The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wealth
  • Industry
  • Toil

• For Seabrook this 'nobrow' state - where the old brow distinctions no longer seem to apply - is not only a dumbing down of intellectual culture; it is also a wising up to commercial culture, which is no longer seen as an object of disdain but as 'a source of status.' At the same time this child of the elite is ambivalent about the collapse of brow distinctions, caught as he is between the old world of middlebrow taste, as vetted by The New Yorker of yore, and the new world of nobrow taste, where culture and marketing are one.

  

  Hal Foster
  • State
  • Seabrook
  • Nobrow

• I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • State
  • Researched

1

...

5

6

7

8

9

...

17

previous

next